{"id":3620,"date":"2014-02-01T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2014-02-01T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:46:53","slug":"site-stats-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Site Stats For January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New World Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamlet Au over at New World Notes<\/a> is researching Second Life related blogs for an upcoming project, he doesn&#8217;t go into details regarding the project but he has posted a couple of blog posts about statistics.<\/p>\n<p>In one, entitled\u00a0<a title=\"New World Notes Blog Post About SL Traffic\" href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2014\/01\/second-life-website-still-top-in-traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Second Life Website Still Strong in Traffic, Says SimilarWeb<\/a>, he takes a look at traffic to the Second Life web properties and reports that the traffic looks extremely healthy. In another, which is entitled\u00a0<a title=\"New World Notes SLUniverse Popular\" href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2014\/01\/sl-universe-most-popular-sl-community-site.html\" target=\"_blank\">SL Universe: The Most Popular Site for Second Life Opinion?<\/a>, Hamlet comes to the conclusion that <a title=\"SLUniverse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/php\/\" target=\"_blank\">SLUniverse<\/a> gets a lot of visitors who talk about Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Those results are being debated over at New World Notes and statistics often generate questions regarding the data and whether we&#8217;re in lies, damned lies and statistics territory. However Hamlet&#8217;s project prompted me to investigate my own site statistics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Search Terms<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Search terms are a scary area, some bizarre ones turn up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no wonder why the drugs and sex<\/li>\n<li>strawberry singh has a testicle on her head<\/li>\n<li>passion that won t let you quit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Poor old <a title=\"Strawberry Singh\" href=\"http:\/\/strawberrysingh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Singh<\/a>! Who even searches for that? Anyway the top 20 search terms are generally more sensible, although the odd one or two turn up.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>second life<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">ciaran marley\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">social networking tool\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">ciaran laval\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">second life linden homes\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">mmo\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">secondlife decrease prim count\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">conversations\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">geeky\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">linden homes second life\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">can i use cloud party without facebook\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">w9 second life tax\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">casper vend sl\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">penny patton second life\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">convex hull second life\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">join aka\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">sex is fun not sin\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">virwox good\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">set a prim to convex\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">w-8ben second life<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have no idea who Ciaran Marley is! Numbers 16 and 17 have me scratching my head too, but generally that&#8217;s not a bad list, convex hull, tax and account issues etc.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Country Of Visitors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next I decided to take a look at where my visitors apparently come from, there are no great surprises here, it&#8217;s mostly North America and Europe.\u00a0Saudi Arabia and Latvia just missed the cut for the top 10.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">United States<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">China\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Great Britain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Ukraine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Canada<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Australia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Netherlands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Singapore<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Operating Systems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to operating systems, I see that my visitors aren&#8217;t very mobile when they visit, with the main players dominating. Although unknown operating systems are quite popular!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Windows 58.8 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Unknown 19.1 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Macintosh 14.9 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Linux 6.3 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Java 0.5 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">BlackBerry 0 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Unknown Unix system 0 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">iOS (iPhone\/iPod\/iPad\/&#8230;)0 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Sony PlayStation 0 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Java Mobile 0 %<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Browsers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In terms of browsers, it&#8217;s again pretty much as one may expect although what qualifies as a browser these days does confuse me based on these results. I use the top two in this list.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Google Chrome 26 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Firefox 22.4 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">MS Internet Explorer 13.6 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Unknown ? 13.3 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Safari 10.1 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Mozilla 8.2 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Opera 1.7 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">IPhone (PDA\/Phone browser) 1.2 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">NetNewsWire (RSS Reader) 1.2 %<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">FeedDemon (RSS Reader) 0.6 %<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do this very often, if you have a popular website though, it probably is something you should do, although you may need to take some of the results with a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3620\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet Au over at New World Notes is researching Second Life related blogs for an upcoming project, he doesn&#8217;t go into details regarding the project but he has posted a couple of blog posts about statistics. 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